Control cannot leave the body of a finally clause

• Jun 07, 2019

CodeRush Classic shows the Control cannot leave the body of a finally clause code issue if a finally block includes statements redirecting the program execution flow out of this block (e.g. return, goto, continue).

Fix

Remove the invalid statement out of the finally block.

Purpose

Highlights the execution flow redirecting statements, which would cause the Control cannot leave the body of a finally clause compilation error.

Example

C#

public string Data { get; private set; }
public bool LoadData()
{
    try
    {
        Data = File.ReadAllText("myText.txt");
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Loading failure");
        return false;
    }
    finally
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Loading finished");│return true;
    }
}

Fix:

C#

public string Data { get; private set; }
public bool LoadData()
{
    try
    {
        Data = File.ReadAllText("myText.txt");
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Loading failure");
        return false;
    }
    finally
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Loading finished");
    }
    return true;
}